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Hi, alltogether.... I try to get my unattended CD perfect, but i still have some pieces which i want to remove. I am using a Streamed German XP SP2, manually reduced (the usual folders: win9x/nt/mig/upg, Lang, netfx, cmpnents) - The 4 Pictures in Allusers/Dokumente/EigeneBilder/Beispielbilder. I found out the names on CD, which are 'bluehill.jpg', 'waterlil.jpg', 'winter.jpg' and 'sunset.jpg' - The Musicfiles in Allusers/Dokumente/EigeneMusik/Beispielmusik. Which seem to be 'beethov9.wma' and 'newstrys.wma' - The Sample Playlists in Allusers/Dokumente/EigeneMusik/SamplePlaylists. 15 files named plylstx.wpl, where x is a number from 1 to 15. I don't want to delete them after Setup, they will have to be deleted on the source CD. B) I found some references in txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf, but where are the real names? Example: When i look at my freshly installed windows, i find a "Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 9 (Scherzo).wma", which is named "beethov9.wma" (or was is .wm_?) on the CD. Thanks in advance...

Hi, Benjamin, i found one little misspelling in Software-Dialogue: The Check-field to select all is named "Alles auwählen", which should be "Alles auswählen". Notice the extra 's'. thanks!

Shame on me... One of my friends found a (the ?!) solution: I call a cmd to start wihu, which also sets some HKLM\RunOnce-Keys to delete the installation-Directories on c: This script calls some 'reg add', then CDs to wihu's Dir, then starts Wihu.exe. I am normally using this script to test under real conditions. When the call for wihu is first, then the 'reg add's, all seems to work ok. Whats this?

Hello, again, i tried to install Nero Multimounter this way. Same procedure, same result. When i double click on the CMD, which simply calls the rundll32.exe... all works ok, only when started from Wihu, all content of the %systemdrive%\install-directory except the wihu-exe gets deleted. The Procedure needs an Service to be installed. Anybody knows how to do this without using the inf-file? I have tested it on several machines, with nlited and original XP-Pro-SP2-CDs, it even works (not), when i call wihu from an already installed WinXP.

@prathapml: I use the cmd, because the lines i have posted are not the only ones for this item. But i reduced the cmd-file to this line without getting rid of the problem. It does not happen, when i doubleclick the cmd-file in Explorer, nor when right-clicking the inf file. Only wihu does the unexpected deletion. so i think it is a problem of wihu calling the function. BTW, the inf does what is expected, even with the deletion... I now have a solution, which is a workaround, but it does what is intended: I copy the files manually, then add the 2 keys in registry, then call regsvr32 to register the dll, all in my cmd. No need for the inf-file.

Hello, People, I am getting more and more familiar with Wihu, but now i encountered a problem i cannot explain. Please review the following: Wihu is called from Winnt.sif/guirunonce. Install.ini has some lines description.3=Codecs command.3=cmd /c %systemdrive%\install\codecs.cmd selected.3 = 1 Codecs.cmd looks like: set dir=%systemdrive%\install rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %dir%\mp3\fhg.inf Fhg.inf is looking like this: [Version] Signature = "$Chicago$" AdvancedINF = 2.5, "Your setup subsystem is outdated. Please install IE 3.01 or greater." [DefaultInstall] RequiredEngine=Setupapi CopyFiles = CopyFiles.DLL, CopyINF RegisterOCXs = OCX.Register AddReg = AddReg [DestinationDirs] CopyFiles.DLL = 11 CopyINF = 17 [AddReg] HKLM, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc", "l3codecp.acm",, "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (Professional)" HKLM, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers32", "msacm.l3codec",, "l3codecp.acm" [OCX.Register] "%11%\l3codecp.acm" [CopyFiles.DLL] l3codecp.acm,,,97 [CopyINF] fhg.inf Now there's a significant difference in the behaviour of the Inf-File: In manual installation (right click -> install) it all works well. Wenn called from wihu, everything in the '%systemdrive%\install'-Directory gets deleted. What is happening here ?

I used Batchfiles because some programs need special commands like folder renaming, adding regkeys, or installing two exes after each other. In this way, i may just copy the entry in install.ini and change the name of the .cmd-file. I now have found out, that my problem arose from WinRAR-SFX. I included the call for the setup in WinRAR, so if i start the exe from explorer, the program is dearchived and started. But what you can't see is, that WinRAR-SFX-process ends, when the archive has been decompressed and the given command is started. So my script or Wihu thinks the setup is over, in fact only the decompression has ended. I changed the script wihu starts, to extract the SFX-Archive to a given folder, the starting the setup-exe itself, now it works. The Nero script was the shortest one i had in my collection. AcroReader needs a much higher sophisticated one, i thought it would be better not to post it here because of its length.

I posted this question to other Forums as well, and some guy gave me a hint: I repack my setups with winRAR (.Net FX 1.1 SP1, for example), and let WinRAR-SFX start the *.msi with /qb. Now WinRAR-SFX extracts the contents to \temp, starts the msi and ends, which lets (Script or wihu, i don't know) think the program is installed and continue to start the next one. Does anybody know a solution for this, or is this not the real Prob? I am working on this, trying to build a cd without repacked setups, but there is not enough space, so this may take a while.

Hello, all! At first, i'll have to say: Thank You, Mr. Kalytta, for this wonderful stuff. Then the Problems begin... I would like WIHU to install several Programs on my unattended XP-SP2-CD. So i placed a "$OEM$\$1\install\" folder on my CD, containing WIHU and Supportfiles. I made WINNT.SIF call WIHU with "%systemdrive%\install\wihu.cmd". So far this works good. The INSTALL.INI held a lot of sections like description.4=Nero 6 3 1 25 command.4=cmd /c %systemdrive%\install\nero.cmd selected.4=1 I did so, because some of my settings include Serial Numbers, or renaming of Folders and such. (WIHU is not able to run multiple programs for one Item itself, isn't it?) The cmd-file looks like this: cmdow @ /hid set dir=%systemdrive% echo -------------- >>%dir%\wihulog.txt echo Installation von Nero 6 3 1 25 gestartet >>%dir%\wihulog.txt %dir%\install\nero63125.exe /sn=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx /write_sn /silent /noreboot /noui echo Fertig. >>%dir%\wihulog.txt This works well, if started alone or as single checked option in wihu. BUT: if i check more than one item, all installations are started simultaneously, complaining that one installation is running, which has to be ended first. What is the cause? BTW: Is it possible to let items mutual exclude each other or the like? (Example: Nero and InCD - Nero alone works fine. Nero and InCD together work fine, also. InCD alone does not.) So if i check option 1 (Nero) the option 2 gets ungrayed (InCD). if i uncheck option 1, option 2 gets deselected and grayed out. Thanks in advance for your help.